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NOTES AND QUEKIES. 



[2°d S. VIII. Oct. 22. 



the following abject letter which he wrote to the king 

 might, we conceive, have been withheld altogether : — 



" Sire, — However profound mj' respect may be for your 

 Majesty, I felt it a duty to do without you the only thing 

 in the world which one ought not to do from mere obe- 

 dience to you." 



M. Marcou's volume, to conclude, is a useful contribu- 

 tion to the history of modern literature, although written 

 in too much of an eulogistic strain. It illustrates very 

 completely the transition-epoch immediately anterior to 

 the era of Boileau and Racine, and if not directly relating 

 to a person of extraordinary merit, it embodies interesting 

 details on the reign of a powerful monarch. The appen- 

 dix of letters collected together at the end is now, we 

 believe, for the first time published. 



3. La Grammaire Fi-anfaise et les Grammairiens du 

 XV1<^ Siecle, par Ch. Livet. 8vo. Paris. A. Durand. 



This interesting book, for which we are indebted to a 

 gentleman already well known from his literary researches, 

 is undoubtedly one of the most valuable monuments raised i 

 by the present generation to the study of lexicography, j 

 Amongst all the reforms accomplished during the six- | 

 teenth century, that which had grammar for its object 

 was not the least conspicuous, and a mere glance at M. 

 Livet's treatise will show how much remained to be done 

 before the French language attained that degree of per- 

 fection we find in the writings of the classics of the Louis- 

 quatorze era. Jacques Dubois, Louis Meigret, Jacques 

 Pelletier, Guillaume des Autels, and Peter Ramus are the 

 principal authors whom M. Livet examines ; the account 

 he gives of their labours, illustrated as it is by copious 

 notes, maj' be considered as a perfect commentary on all 

 French Grammars. And the Lexique Compart, subjoined 

 by way of Index, makes us to trace the changes which 

 have gradually taken place in the spelling of a large 

 number of words. The government of the Emperor 

 Napoleon III. has, we understand, encouraged M. Livet's 

 undertaking by a handsome subscription. We are not 

 astonished at this decision, which is merely an act of 

 strict justice. Gustave Masson. 



Harrow-on-the-IIill. 



R. B. I/. (Taunton). Does our correspondent still possess the Ballad- 

 r^erred to in Tier communication ? If ?o, would she favour us with a 

 sight of it, or a copy. 



Glasooessis. 



" Quern DeuB vult," &c. 

 are said to J>e Barnes' translation of a passage in Euripides. See " N. & 

 Q." vol. i. 347. 351. 421. 476.; vii. 618.; viii. 73. 



W. E. M. " Manchet " is bread of the finest Quality. 



3. W. Thomas Smith published An Historical Account of St. Mary- 



le-Bone, 6vo. 1833 In Bohn's Guinea Catalogue, the best edition of 



Minsheu's Dictionary, 1617, is offered at 18s. 



R. W. Hacrwood. Your obliging communication has been forxcarded 

 to Amicus. , , 



liiBTA is thanked, bat we believe every one of the " abiding supersti- 

 tions " has been already recorded in " N. & Q."- 



Y. L. will see that his information has been anticipated. 



E. S. W. Rosenhagen's claim to the authorship of Junius «s disposed 

 of in Woodfall's edition, i. 21. 



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